Philippe Petit, Peter Schickele & Jane Bloodgood-Abrams to receive “The ASKar”
The Art Society of Kingston (ASK)’s upcoming gala at the Steel House on Saturday, May 19 honors three very different artists: Philippe Petit, the “poet laureate” of the highwire, most famous for his…
Electronic tonic: Bob Lukomski and experimental music in the Hudson Valley
On a spring day in the late ‘80s, I took a rowboat out to Esopus Island with Mark Marinoff, Phil Farber and some other friends. After exploring the rocky little island – a…
Pop-up gallery returns to Kingston this Saturday
Andy Milford and Derek Price had such a good time running the 24-hour “pop-up” gallery at a storefront adjacent to Keegan Ales on Saint James Street in Kingston during the First Saturday Gallery…
Nora Scarlett’s “Trunks of the Gunks” at Unison
When we’re out hiking in the Gunks together, my Significant Other is always looking at the big picture, shooting the kind of thrilling landscape shots that his Nikon and his collection of…
A force of nature: Works by the late Thomas Locker on view in New Paltz
Thomas Locker was so prolific that it felt like he could have an entire art-and-literature column dedicated solely to his work. A painter who worked in homage to the great sublime tradition of…
John Dugdale teaches 19th-century photography techniques in Stone Ridge
When photographer John Dugdale addresses the students at his John Dugdale School of 19th-Century Photography and Aesthetics, located in a non-electrified, multi-windowed homelike structure outside Stone Ridge, the first thing that he asks…
Comic artists’ signing in New Paltz this Saturday
On March 10 from 1 to 4 p.m., October Country Comics, located at 5 Cherry Hill Center in New Paltz, will be hosting its second annual autograph signing, featuring 12 artists, writers and…
Eugene Ludins exhibit at Dorsky
Gene Ludins – who will be celebrated in a new exhibition, “Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist,” opening at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY-New Paltz on Friday, February 10 – has…
Pictures worth a thousand words: the work of Andrew Potolsky
A unique exhibit will be mounted at Duck Pond Gallery in Port Ewen this weekend in the colorful work of Andrew Potolsky, which includes mounted and framed freehand drawings, augmented with computer graphic…
Panel discussion with comic-book artist Paul Abrams
In his home at 30 Staple Street in Kingston, Paul Abrams conducts classes to teach budding artists and comic-book aficionados how to draw their favorite characters. “Basically I take people, step by step,…
